Amtrak and Siemens celebrated completion of the 70th and final Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) electric locomotive at the company’s rail manufacturing hub in Sacramento. The locomotive, built by Siemens with components from more than 60 U.S. suppliers, is part of a new fleet of 70 high-efficiency vehicles that improve the performance and reliability along the heavily traveled Northeast and Keystone Corridors.
The locomotives have been designed and built with advanced technology including a state-of-the-art microprocessor system performs self-diagnosis of technical issues, takes self-corrective action and notifies the locomotive engineer. In addition, the energy efficient locomotives use a regenerative braking system to feed energy back into the power grid. Together, the locomotives could save over 3 billion kilowatt hours of energy and could result in more than USD 300 million in savings over their intended lifetime.
The first Amtrak locomotive was unveiled at the Siemens manufacturing plant in 2013.
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